Pollution From Livestock And Manure

Pollution is a problem to every one. One kind of pollution is manure pollution in water.
There is a lot of confused people as what should be done, and what can be done to stop it . They
have to find a better way of dealing with it. Because livestock is part of our total economy, but
they can be an asset to our environment. Proper mangement of manure can be good for the
enviornment. However poor management of livestock and manure can hurt our lives. If there is to
much nitrogen in your water and you drink a lot of it. It will hurt you and it could defect your
baby before it is born.

"Manure, wast not, want not." (Agri-view). Manure should be returned to the land. We
have helped ...

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and pollutes it.

The best way of handling of manure is to build a
six month pit or harvester. That means that you can hold your livestock manure and all the runoff
that is run into it for six months or more. To build a pit you must have a overview map that
shows;

"1. Farm buildings, yards surrounding area, homes, other
buildings, lakes, ponds, streams, roads, and other prominent
landmarks, with in about one-half mile, should be shown and
feet from pit.

2. Exact location of wells.

3. Exact location of manure storage facility.

4. General topography with contours dranage patterns. soil
types and amount of slop in the area."(Bruns)

If these are all ok. Then to know how big to build it you have to figure out how much runoff you get in the pit. So it does not run over. If you have that, you can build.

Practices

"Practices that keeps manure out of the waters.

A. Don't deposit manure into surface waters. ...

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